Look at this dude. He's too strong for the game. For the small price of 4 mana, you get a card that can attack for 4 damage and take 5 damage. No drawbacks, no weaknesses. Compare this to Ragnaros the Firelord: 8 mana for an 8/8, which already loses a stat point compared to yeti, that CAN'T ATTACK. How is a card that A) Can't attack and B) Have less stat per mana supposed to contest with Yeti? The developers thought the answer was to make it deal 8 damage each turn, but it's RANDOM. You don't have control over it. The REAL answer is, it can't. Blizzard though, finally realizing how bad the card was, moved him to the Hall of Fame. Not because it was good, but because it was so famous for being bad.
Compare Yeti to Mind Control Tech, a card that people are mad about. But this card is bad. For 3 mana, you get a 3/3, which is also worse stats per mana than yeti, with an effect that only goes off if your opponent is winning. Why would I play a card that's good when I'm losing when I can just play Yeti and be winning?
I mentioned stat per mana before, but I'm going to go in depth a little bit more here, because it's such a complicated concept. Think of the formula f(x)=x/y where y = mana cost to be a cards stat/mana. Chillwind Yeti has 9 stats for 4 mana. This means it's stats per mana is f(9)=9/4. But wait, those are perfect squares! That means that it's really f(3)=3/2. Comparing those to each other, you can notice that there are 2 numbers that stand out the most: 2 and 4. Upon closer inspection, you realize that the sum of those numbers is equal to the difference of the other numbers (9-3)! This rare occurrence creates a phenomenon I call "Stat Squaring". Because these numbers are squared, the stats themselves are actually squared. It's not a 4 mana 4/5, it's a 4 mana 16/25.
After reading my arguments, I beg of you to message Blizzard and explain to them the errors of their ways. Please do not be cruel to them. Remember that they're only a small indie company, and that they may not respond to you for a while. While making mistakes are bad, it's not the end of the world as long as you learn from them.
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Divine favor because the entire concept of the card is utterly retarded - rewards you for playing clueless.
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Druid is probably the second best after Paladin.
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What about Paletress instead of 1x Cabal? Sometimes you really need lategame and Entomb aside you don't have much.
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By the way, this deck wrecks all other Reno decks. Maybe because of the duplicating value, but I've never lost to Reno Paladin/Rogue/Warlock, and those games were like the easiest. Amount of value Mage can generate is insane.
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Why cut Molten Giant? In many cases that card won me games, would never cut it. Saraad was also pretty good for me, not insanely good and might try Tomb Spider instead, they serve somewhat similar role of card advantage.
Overall I really enjoy playing this deck, worst matchups seem to be warrior and shaman, maybe im doing something wrong, but have no idea what exactly - vs warrior I try to not overextend and gain top value from the cards, make him waste removals on unnecessary cards, but never works as intended. Lorewalker Cho from shredder ruined my only possible win :(. Aggro Shaman just kills me, those turn 5 bloodlusts are insane...
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Value with Brann Bronzebeard - some chance of dealing 1 AOE damage.
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Okay so Brann seems like a real MVP, had a game when I healed by 3x +16 from healbot+duplicate (had him echo'd so could be even more lol). He's acting like bait because people think your deck resolves around it and try to remove it by any means, he trades with 2-drops favorably, and he's awesome if you combo it even once, be it extra discovery, +2 boom bots or +8 heal - anything is fine. I've cut Zombie Chow for it, and doing quite good.
Also, thinking of cutting Alexstrasza for Nefarian, they are similar in terms of body, but healing provided by Alexstrasza rarely changes anything (considering you have Reno), and Nefarian looks really good vs control, also can combo with Brann, not likely, but with Thaurissan - why not?
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Wut, I have all the cards for the 10k dust deck?... Definetly gonna try it out then, love different variations of control Mage and this one seems interesting.
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Seems really interesting. Crafted a Freeze Mage a few days ago, going to give this a try once I get bored with Freeze.
Those Warriors will suffer!
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Yeah unfortunately this deck is a bit weak atm, stuck at rank 9-10 and can't get any higher.
Which is sad because it's much more fun than other decks I have.